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00:19You
00:19You leave shortly for the moon a journey of two hundred and forty thousand miles now
00:24It's successful. You will be the first man to walk on the surface of another heavenly body
00:29What exactly do you hope to discover?
00:32I think
00:32Even more important than the answers that we'll be able to find will be the fact that we got a
00:37whole bunch of new questions to ask
00:44Neil a Neil Marvin miles Los Angeles Times the descent onto the lunar surface appears to be very challenging
00:51How far will you burn down and how low could you stage an abort if necessary?
00:59We have made some significant improvements in the flight control system in recent months
01:03The power of descent will be handled by the computer to a large degree
01:09Colonel Aldrin, after you land on the moon, what do you anticipate from those first moments?
01:14Any expectations, hopes, anxieties?
01:18Well, uh, immediately upon touchdown, our concern is the integrity of the lunar module
01:24Without that integrity, we cannot safely continue with the lunar surface work
01:29We cannot retract...
01:29Are those the astronauts?
01:31You are humble men and...
01:33Why are they in a box?
01:34So as not to catch any germs
01:35...encapitulate something, uh, deeply human
01:38You're going to sit down or just stand there hovering
01:40And they desire to explore to, uh, push boundaries
01:42Without exploration, without asking questions
01:45Are we not desperate for a sort of, uh, stasis as a species?
01:50The American State Department asked if I wanted to send a message
01:53Not sure...
01:54What kind of message?
01:55For the astronauts to leave on the moon
01:57But I probably...
01:57They approached a handful of individuals from around the globe
02:00A cross-section of human civilization
02:02To provide a message of a shared and common humanity
02:06What did you say?
02:08On behalf of the British people, I salute the skill and courage
02:11That have brought man to the moon
02:13May this endeavor increase the knowledge and well-being of mankind
02:19Well, I feel very best
02:24How will it be, um, communicated?
02:27On a disc, apparently
02:29What kind of disc?
02:30A silicon disc
02:31They sent a picture
02:32A tiny disc
02:33With tiny, microscopic inscriptions in golden lettering
02:37From planet Earth, July 1969
02:40Which they intend to leave in a little white pouch
02:42With an olive branch
02:44An olive branch?
02:45Means for the little green men to wait a bite
02:54I'm going to bed
02:55I've been, uh...
02:57Conducted in any kind of, uh...
02:58Undue haste
02:59Owned church tomorrow is at nine
03:01Not ten
03:02Of course there was a good deal of concern
03:04In our own minds
03:05And many other people in the organization
03:07That all these things
03:08Over the descent
03:09And surface
03:10Would fall into place
03:11In time
03:12At this point in time
03:29Of course there was a new plan
03:30In a place
03:31We can see
03:31To
03:32be forced To
03:32be forced To
03:32be forced To
03:33be forced To
03:33be forced To
03:35be forced To
03:42be forced
04:43What does it do for you? Honestly.
04:45Church?
04:46Hmm.
04:47There's a chance to take stock, reflect on the past week, think ahead to the next.
04:52Get a diary for that.
04:54And to think of life's bigger questions.
04:57Except one doesn't.
04:58One mainly thinks about what a lot of dreary nonsense the dean is talking about.
05:02Why doesn't he shut up?
05:03He's been with us for nearly 20 years.
05:05That might make him loyal.
05:06It does not make him interesting.
05:09They have mouths, but they speak not.
05:13Eyes have they, but they see not.
05:16They have ears, but they hear not.
05:20Noses have they, but they...
05:30You see?
05:33It's not a sermon, it's a general anaesthetic.
05:36Ah, but they smell not.
05:39They that make them are alike unto them.
05:42So is everyone that trusteth.
05:44That's it, that's the last time.
05:46And so the Lord teaches...
05:48Now, on Sunday, while you lot are in here, I'm going to spend this hour doing something useful.
05:53But unto his name give glory, nor to false idols either.
06:06Ah.
06:15Is it possible, do you think, the dean might have reached, how can I put this kindly, the moment of
06:22his own obsolescence?
06:24I noticed one or two people struggling to stay awake.
06:26We could discreetly start the search for a replacement.
06:30Goodwill.
06:31Someone with a bit of oomph.
06:33I think so.
06:34Zest.
06:35That's it.
06:35Pepper.
06:36Yes, thank you.
07:17And so, here at Cape Kennedy, we are all up to the moon this morning.
07:21Are you watching?
07:23Mighty Saturn V, the big moon express, all ready to leave Platform 39 here at Cape Kennedy, on time in
07:32about 30 minutes.
07:33This enormous event, this enormous event, which uniquely unites all the world, because all the world should be interested in
07:42this journey.
07:43And after this journey, we on Earth can never be the same.
07:47This edition should be set.
07:48We are all up to the moon.
08:04Where is she?
08:06Where is she?
08:06Ferusat.
08:07If I say she and we're in Buckingham Palace, who do you think I mean?
08:16there you are i've been looking for you everywhere where have you been on the telephone interviewing
08:20candidates to become the new dean anyone good yes i think we found one how old same age as you
08:26i'd
08:26say and a good fit for what for the job i've asked him to do
08:48liftoff we have a liftoff 32 minutes past the hour
08:57what men what kind
08:59tower is clear we've got a roll program
09:02biel armstrong reporting the rolling picture program which puts a pause
09:1311 houston thrushes go all engines you're looking good
09:17hi roger you're loud and clear houston
09:23we got skirt
09:25roger we confirm skirt
09:27tower's going
09:30launch your tower
09:32neil armstrong confirming both the engine skirt separation and the launch escape tower separation
09:44roger
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10:35eagle this new assembly then detaches from the final stage of the saturn rocket as i say a
10:41hair-raising business but it all seems to have gone off without a hitch tuesday next week you
10:45will be in cheshire to visit the works of british salt limited on wednesday it's norfolk to
10:50inaugurate a new gas terminal then on friday it's macclesfield for the open day of the machine tool
10:57industry research association that evening there will be a dinner given by the british concrete
11:03society where you have been asked to present an award may i interrupt your royal highness what
11:12the newly appointed dean of windsor robin woods was wondering if you could spare him a moment
11:17he has a request fine just uh put something in the book with a highlight to look forward to along
11:23with
11:23the award show for the british concrete society is that a joke afraid not sir but actually he's here
11:37now hello your royal highness how can i help in the process of moving in my wife and i we
11:44couldn't
11:45help noticing that there were a large number of buildings on the estate of windsor that appear to
11:48be empty and unused and specifically the old canon's cloisters one or two of the buildings on denton's
11:56commons all the houses on the north walls the old residences of the minor canons i realize this is
12:03quite forward of me but i was wondering if i could make a request to use one of them
12:09you don't like the home we've given you
12:13this wouldn't be as a home for a long time now i've had a dream an ambition to start an
12:20academy or
12:21conservatoire what for personal and spiritual growth something that has struck me from my own
12:31experience but also from observing it in well in others is that you get to a certain age and you
12:38hit
12:38a ceiling a crisis if you will you you'll lose perspective get into a slump it's quite common among
12:46businessmen and executives and it's no different for clergymen we see a particularly high level of
12:53dissatisfaction among mid-career clergymen and i thought one of these buildings in its idyllic setting
12:58would be a great place for priests to come and recharge reflect raise their game
13:08by doing what talking reading thinking may i suggest that your concept is flawed you don't raise your
13:19game by talking or thinking you raise your game through action and like this and this is how you
13:27get out of a slump but if if one of those buildings is free and you want to fill it
13:31with hot air and
13:32thoughts and be my guest thank you sir we don't have to wait long now 17 minutes and counting the
13:51landing
13:51craft has separated from the command module and has begun its descent to the surface of the moon armstrong
13:56and alden will now send the lunar module into a sort of pirouette to allow colin will you read the
14:02children yes sir and tell the queen yes thank you sir hundred darling it's time edward edward time to wake
14:16up
14:19come on edward hurry up hold on let's go come on it's very exciting isn't it certainly is are you
14:31able to join us for a drink battle that would be very nice thank you ma'am of course Michael
14:37collins left alone in the orbiter now meaning when it passes behind the moon he'll be entirely cut off
14:42from the rest of humanity for the rest of humanity the loneliest man in the universe our prayers
14:47quick quick quick quick
14:48of the moon now
14:59their land in sight chosen for its smoothness but not entirely
15:02without the slightest impact with rock or crater could disable the lunar module
15:08drink sir
15:24he's gone to manual control something's wrong
15:29so
15:30so
15:38quiet please
15:41ssh
15:41ssh
15:43ssh
15:43ssh
15:43ssh
15:56ssh
15:56It's such a thing to know.
16:05It's in Tranquility Base here.
16:08The eagle has landed.
16:09Man on the moon.
16:11Man has landed on the moon.
16:18Did you see?
16:19As we watch these images tonight,
16:22we are united across the world
16:25in a uniformed space of wonder.
16:28Never before has the entire planet
16:31No, we don't know.
16:32It's such remarkable humanity.
16:36Meteor.
16:39This is historic.
16:42This is not about it.
16:44This is even divine.
16:45Can you believe they're on the moon?
16:46And yet, all of us,
16:48regardless of race, sex,
16:51or religious belief,
16:52we are united right now
16:54in this singular human achievement.
16:57Okay, Neil, we can see you coming down the ladder now.
17:01I'm at the foot of the ladder.
17:04The lamb footbeds are only depressed
17:07in the surface about one or two inches,
17:11although the surface appears to be
17:14very, very fine-grained
17:16as you get close to it.
17:17It's almost like a powder.
17:20Ground man is very fine.
17:24And I'm going to step off the lamb now.
17:29That's one small step for man,
17:34one giant leap for mankind.
17:40It has a stark beauty all its own.
17:43It's like much of the high desert
17:45of the United States.
17:47It's different,
17:49but it's very pretty under the sea.
17:51This is a powerful reminder
17:54of our capacity for greatness
17:56as a species.
17:57It's not simply
17:58the engineering triumph
18:00represented here today,
18:01but the triumph
18:02of human ambition,
18:04the desire to reach
18:05quite literally
18:06for the stars.
18:09And I think
18:09this new perspective,
18:11seeing the Earth
18:12from space
18:13in all our unity
18:14and cohesion
18:15is likely to inspire
18:17an unprecedented shift
18:18in our thinking.
18:19Beautiful view.
18:21Is that something?
18:23Magnificent sight out here.
18:26Magnificent desolation.
18:43Mr. Governor,
18:44ladies and gentlemen,
18:45the esteemed members
18:46of the wool textile delegation.
18:51I very much appreciate
18:52the honor that you have bestowed on me
18:55by your invitation
18:56to the mill of Thomas Burnley
18:58and the son of Kier
18:59in Yorkshire.
19:02The groundbreaking job
19:03you are doing here
19:05by the burning fastball.
19:10There comes a time,
19:13a moment,
19:14in everyone's experience,
19:15where dentures
19:17and other oral prosthetics
19:19become an indispensable
19:20fact of life.
19:23According to last year's
19:25adult dental health survey,
19:2737%...
19:29and this you,
19:42What do you mean?
19:43We're moving to Earth,
19:43and we're moving toarius
19:45and we're coming in to
19:463 points less than of犺ă
19:47day. Doesn't
19:51seem to be
19:52We're coming
19:52pråctнО, and we're
19:52coming in the first half away.
19:52your 20, we're
19:52coming in the after 12... 3
19:58and 15,
19:59we're pushing into
20:12me I
20:16you have control
20:17I have control
20:21what are you doing sir
20:25this isn't on the flight charge
20:27there's no other traffic
20:37sir
20:41sir the service ceiling for this aircraft is 45,000 feet
20:45you and I both know
20:46you can't live your land
20:47sir
20:47here we go
21:28God, isn't it beautiful?
21:31I'm sure, but we're currently at the very limit of what this aircraft can do.
21:35Perhaps. But look, we've also lived. Just for a minute.
22:03The first men on the moon lifted off on the first stage of their journey home an hour and six
22:07minutes ago.
22:08A new chapter in human history has opened. The race for the moon is over.
22:13For the people of this planet, what is the meaning of this stupendous venture?
22:45We shall not cease from exploration.
22:49And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the
22:57first time.
22:58Those words, by T.S. Eliot, have never run more true.
23:03We stand at the dawn of a new age of space exploration.
23:07The promise of space has never fallen.
23:23The promise of space exploration is over.
23:25The promise of space exploration has never been done.
23:26The promise of space exploration is over.
23:27The promise of space exploration is over.
23:36They look good for the future of the star-spoken.
23:44Good morning, sir.
23:45Morning, sir.
23:56Your Royal Highness.
23:57Oh, Christ.
24:04Morning.
24:04I wonder whether you might have a moment, sir,
24:06to meet the new arrivals.
24:08Ah, your concentration camp.
24:10For spiritual defectives.
24:12I prefer center of recovery and renewal.
24:14I'm sure you do.
24:16We have an interesting group of all ages
24:18from around the United Kingdom.
24:20Will you join?
24:20Join what?
24:22It's an academy for blocked, mid-level priests.
24:25Correct.
24:26Well, in case you hadn't noticed, I'm not a priest.
24:28Just to say hello.
24:30What, now?
24:31Why not?
24:34Fine. Get in.
24:36Do I need to show symptoms of despair?
24:38Should I sigh and moan dramatically?
24:42One does like to fit in.
25:05I've brought our land lord, his royal highness, the Duke of Edinburgh, to say hello.
25:11How do you do, your royal highness?
25:13Good morning.
25:14Your royal highness.
25:15Good morning.
25:15Good morning, sir.
25:16Good morning.
25:17Good morning.
25:18Your royal highness.
25:21So, what have you all been up to?
25:23Apart from making quite a mess of our house, I see.
25:26We started by identifying why each of us had chosen to come here and stating what we were
25:32hoping to achieve.
25:34Perhaps we should recap for his royal highness.
25:39Michael.
25:42Well, I'm here because, having recently reached a particular age, I decided to give myself
25:54a score.
25:55And I felt I only merited a fail.
25:59D minus.
25:59Oh, dear.
26:01And why was that?
26:03Well, when entering the church, I allowed myself to dream that advancing age would bring
26:11new revelations, insight, a deepening of my faith, a growing flock.
26:20But instead, I find myself in a small rural parish with a dwindling congregation, lowering
26:27attendance.
26:28Right.
26:30And this has left you with a sense of disappointment, of underachievement and directionlessness.
26:37Well, yes.
26:38That sense of directionlessness and redundancy is something that chimed with one or two others
26:45here.
26:45Because of how the public has turned away from us, turned away from the church.
26:50It's clear we are failing to connect with people.
26:54More and more people are finding their spiritual needs being met elsewhere.
27:00Where, for example?
27:10The moon.
27:11I...
27:12The moon.
27:13Yes, sir.
27:16Five hundred million people watch the lunar landing.
27:19Yes.
27:19Five hundred million people getting from televisions what they used to get from the church.
27:24A sense of coming together.
27:26A sense of community.
27:27Of awe.
27:27Wonder.
27:28Well, that was part of a wider shift, too, we agreed.
27:31From religion to science.
27:32The greater the achievements in science, the more mysteries are explained, the more questions
27:38are answered, the less need there is for a god to provide answers.
27:44I'm reminded of Keats.
27:48What is there in thee, moon, that thou shouldst move my heart so potently?
27:56Now we know what the moon is.
27:59Now we know what the moon is.
28:01Just dust.
28:04Silence.
28:06A monochromatic void.
28:08We see no god behind those rocks and space dust.
28:13Simply an unknowable vastness.
28:17When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars that thou hast ordained,
28:29What is man, that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
28:45Any thoughts, sir?
28:52Me?
29:01I'll tell you what I think.
29:03I've never heard such a load of pretentious, self-piteous nonsense.
29:08And what you lot need to do is to get off your backsides, get out into the world, and bloody
29:12well do something.
29:13That is why you're all so, so lost.
29:19I believe that there is an imperative within man, all men, to make a mark.
29:25Action is what defines us.
29:27Action, not suffering.
29:28All this sitting around, thinking and talking.
29:33Let me ask you this.
29:34Do you think those astronauts up there are catatonic like you lot?
29:39Of course not.
29:40They are too busy achieving something spectacular.
29:43And as a result, they are at one with the world.
29:47The one with their god.
29:49And happy.
29:53That's my advice.
29:55Model yourselves on men of action.
29:57Like Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins.
30:01I mean, these men score A triple plus.
30:04They've got the answers.
30:05Not a bunch of navel-gazing underachievers infecting one another with gaseous doom.
30:14If you do opt for action, you can start by cleaning up this bloody floor.
30:27Oh, not again.
30:28Around the same time we were asked by the American State Department.
30:31It's the second time this week.
30:32If we'd send that message to the moon on the silicon disc.
30:34You were also asked another question.
30:36On how many occasions is the British royal family forced to eat venison each year?
30:40No.
30:40Honestly, I think if I eat any more of this stuff, I'm going to start growing antlers.
30:46Are you listening?
30:47Yes.
30:48I'm all ears.
30:49Little brown furry ones.
30:51Well, provided they make it back to Earth in one piece, and if after all their tests they're
30:55still standing, would we like an audience with the astronauts?
31:02What?
31:03Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins?
31:06Here at the palace?
31:07Yes.
31:08They're being sent around the world on a victory tour.
31:11Shall I go back with a yes?
31:14My God.
31:16Yes, please.
31:18I thought that would cheer you up.
31:20It does.
31:23Do I need cheering up?
31:28A little.
31:35They're scheduled to arrive at Heathrow Airport at 2pm.
31:38From there they will be taken directly to the American Embassy at Gropen Square for a meeting
31:41with the U.S. Ambassador.
31:43From there they will come to Buckingham Palace for an audience with Her Majesty's the Queen,
31:47Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, His Royal Highness Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Margaret,
31:50Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward.
31:53And what time will that be?
31:54Around 4 o'clock, ma'am.
31:56Will we give them anything?
31:57Tea?
31:57Probably not.
31:58We thought it good to keep things moving, no sitting down.
32:01I quite agree.
32:02More than half an hour from arrival to departure.
32:06Great.
32:11I'd like to make a request, if I may.
32:15Sir.
32:16Instead of being herded in with everyone else, I was wondering if I might be allowed some time with the
32:21astronauts alone.
32:24In a separate, private meeting.
32:27Airman to airman.
32:29Pilot to pilots.
32:32I'll speak to the Ambassador.
32:34But I'm sure it would be possible our end.
32:39Would fifteen minutes be enough?
32:41Fifteen minutes?
32:43They are on a very tight schedule, I believe.
32:46To discuss mankind's greatest achievement.
32:52No.
32:54It's nowhere near enough.
32:59I can see it's all I'm going to get.
33:25Massive Voice
33:26Landing at London Heathrow Airport from Berlin.
33:29The Apollohmen men begin a hectic 22 and a quarter hour visit that demands the same sort of precision timing
33:35as their mission in space.
33:37The world famous people
33:38on the moon team of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, accompanied by their wives,
33:44received one of their warmest welcomes yet from the British people. The astronauts admitted that
33:48they are starting to feel the strain of their British nation-world tour.
33:54Airman from the planet Earth, my step right along the land.
33:58The light, I've been 69, and I can see everything quite clearly. The light is, uh, especially, uh,
34:08applying backlighting it to the front of the land. That's everything, I guess, very clearly.
34:48The American astronauts are now arriving above the palace. The world-famous team of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael
34:55Collins in the...
34:57...
35:00...
35:10...
35:35Your Majesty, Mr. Neil Armstrong.
35:37Hello. Welcome, Mrs. Armstrong. Colonel Michael Collins.
35:44Great pleasure to meet you.
35:52Great pleasure to meet you, young man.
36:03Sir?
36:14Sir?
36:31Please don't tell me you want to talk about children.
36:53They've been waiting long.
36:54Only a few moments, sir.
37:09Mr. Neil Armstrong, Colonel Michael Collins and Colonel Edwin Aldrin, you're all honest.
37:13It is a great, great honor, gentlemen. Congratulations, one and all.
37:20Please, do sit down.
37:31There's no need to sit so closely. As you can see, there's plenty of space.
37:37I noticed you instinctively sat in the same positions as the command module.
37:44Anyway, I don't know if anyone told you, but I am actually a pilot myself.
37:50You all right? Yes, sir. I just had a cold.
37:55Here.
37:57It's clean, I promise you.
38:03Why, you've, uh, you've, you've all got colds.
38:07Yes, we do.
38:12Well, here we are.
38:18I just want to say how much I admire what you've done.
38:22It's just remarkable.
38:24Um, but also to say how much I identify in some way with, with who you are.
38:30Bless you.
38:31Sorry.
38:33I, um, I wrote down some questions.
38:41You see, I initially imagined that I wanted to ask questions of you on a, on a technical level.
38:46You're like, you know, what is the, the physical experience of, of G-forces of, of that magnitude and so
38:54on.
38:54But, you see, I, I realize now that the questions I actually want answering are,
39:10are, you see, you're all too young to understand, I think, but,
39:17there comes a time in life when one first really starts to evaluate what one has accomplished.
39:26And because of the position that I've ended up in here,
39:29I, um, who I've become, um, who I'm married to, um, I've, well, I've not been able to achieve the
39:44things I would have liked to.
39:47But I, as a man, as a, as an adventurer, and watching you three heroes at work, it, it was
40:00like watching a dream.
40:02Which is why I, I, I leapt at the chance to meet with you.
40:07Even if it is just for, for ten minutes, that I might ask.
40:19What your thoughts were, out there?
40:25Uh, Neil?
40:30Well, uh, obviously, uh, a sense of relief that we executed the mission successfully.
40:36Of course.
40:37And we certainly got some amazing views, didn't we?
40:40Yes, we did.
40:42Extraordinary.
40:42Uh, I think I'm not talking so much about, you know, views in that sense.
40:47Uh, uh, as perspectives, uh, observations of, of our place.
40:59Uh, to be honest, there wasn't much time for that.
41:04Um, as a pilot, you'll know what they drill into you above all else is protocol.
41:12Uh, procedure.
41:14You gotta stick to the rules.
41:15Yes.
41:16Well, as an astronaut, it's double that.
41:19Mm-hmm.
41:20We've pretty much spent our entire time with lists in our hands, ticking things off.
41:24Mm-hmm.
41:25Tick, check.
41:25Tick, check.
41:26Isaac glued to the mission protocol to such a degree, you never really get to look outside.
41:31That's how busy they keep you.
41:32Busy.
41:33Tight leash.
41:33Not to mention, most of the time you're so darn tired.
41:36Mm-hmm.
41:36No matter how hard you practice, you never get used to the sleep.
41:40Sleep.
41:41Mm-hmm.
41:42Neil, uh, let me tell His Royal Highness about what happened after the moonwalk.
41:47Uh, I would love to hear.
41:51You'd love to hear it.
41:52Yeah.
41:55Well, uh, after I completed the moonwalk...
41:57I-I watched it all, every step.
42:00I got back into the module and knew we only had a few hours to get some rest before we
42:07took off again.
42:08So, I-I got my head down.
42:11I closed my eyes.
42:12Wait for it.
42:13But all I could hear was this noise.
42:16Bang, bang, bang.
42:18Bang.
42:18What?
42:19Bang, bang, bang.
42:21From outside the module.
42:22I know.
42:23You know what it was?
42:24What?
42:26The water cooler.
42:29The water cooler.
42:29It was making this noise.
42:30Bang, bang, bang.
42:33Water cooler.
42:34Oh.
42:35The greatest engineers in the world design a rocket that takes us to the moon, but they
42:39can't even get us a decent water cooler.
42:42So, you're right.
42:43It was full of surprises.
42:47I see.
42:53Were there any other questions you had for us?
43:07No.
43:11Well, in-in that case, would you mind if we asked you a few questions?
43:15No, of course.
43:17What is it like?
43:20What is what like?
43:21Living in a-in a place like this.
43:23Cause we heard you had a thousand rooms.
43:25And that if you had the lengths of all the corridors together, it comes to four miles?
43:30Uh, well...
43:31Oh, is it true you have a bagpiper for an alarm clock?
43:34And how many staff do you have here anyway?
43:35And how many palaces?
43:36We heard twelve.
43:39And do you know all these people in the-in the pictures here?
43:41Are they-are you related to those-
43:43Oh, to the dots?
43:54One, two, three.
43:56Cheese!
43:56One, two, three.
44:08Cheese!
44:15I don't know what I was thinking.
44:17I expected them to be giants, gods.
44:22In reality, they were just three little men, pale-faced with colds.
44:28They have some sympathy.
44:30The very qualities that made them perfect for the job.
44:33But their lack of flair or imagination.
44:36Their sense of duty and modesty and reliability.
44:39Total absence of originality or spontaneity.
44:42But that's what makes them perfect in a crisis.
44:45And entirely anti-climactic when you meet them in person.
44:51Can you imagine if they go all that way to the moon and stay healthy, but one trip to London
44:57then he kills them?
45:01It's not their fault.
45:03They never wanted to be public figures.
45:05And now, because of one event, they will be forever.
45:09Hmm.
45:10They delivered as astronauts, but they disappointed as human beings.
45:18They'll spend the rest of their lives in goldfish bowls.
45:22Scared to open their mouths.
45:24Knowing it could reveal who they actually are and that they will inevitably disappoint.
45:30And for that, they deserve our pity.
45:34Good job there were no little green men.
45:38They could be forgiven for thinking if that's all planet Earth has got to offer.
45:43Let's give the place a miss.
45:44Mm-hmm.
45:48Mm-hmm.
46:14Your logic.
46:16My head.
46:43You can go to the Sunset
46:57There wasn't a specific moment when it started.
47:01It's been more of a gradual thing.
47:05A drip, drip, drip of...
47:08Of doubt.
47:11Disaffection.
47:13Disease.
47:15Discomfit.
47:17People around me have noticed my general irritability.
47:24Now, of course, that's nothing new.
47:28I'm generally a cantankerous sort.
47:32But even I would have to admit that there has been more of it lately.
47:36Not to mention an almost jealous fascination
47:41with the achievements of these young astronauts.
47:46Compulsive over-exercising.
47:49An inability to find calm...
47:54...or satisfaction...
47:57...or fulfilment.
48:00And when you look at all these symptoms, of course, it doesn't take a genius to tell you that they
48:07all suggest I'm slap-bang in the middle of a...
48:19I can't even say what kind of crisis.
48:24...that crisis.
48:25...that...
48:26...crisis.
48:28And...
48:29...you know, of course, one's read or heard about other people hitting that crisis.
48:33And, you know, just like them, you look in all the usual places, resort to all the usual things to
48:38try and make yourself feel better.
48:44Some of which I can admit to in this room, and some of which I probably shouldn't.
48:54Some of which I probably shouldn't.
48:56My mother died recently.
49:11She, she saw that something was amiss.
49:17It's a good word there.
49:21Amiss.
49:22She saw that something was missing in her youngest child.
49:27Her only son.
49:32Faith.
49:37How's your faith, she asked me.
49:47I'm here to admit to you that I've lost it.
49:56And...
49:56without it, what is there?
50:03The...
50:05The loneliness...
50:07...and emptiness...
50:10...and anticlimax...
50:12...of going all that way to the moon...
50:15...to find nothing...
50:17...but haunting desolation.
50:20Ghostly silence.
50:23Gloom.
50:26That is what faithlessness is.
50:31As opposed to finding...
50:33...you know...
50:35...wonder, ecstasy, the miracle of...
50:39...divine...
50:40...creation, God's design and purpose.
50:45What am I trying to say?
50:48I'm trying to say that...
50:51...the solution to our problems...
50:54...I think...
50:56...is not in the...
50:58...in the ingenuity of the rocket...
51:00...or the science...
51:01...or the technology...
51:03...or...
51:03...even the bravery.
51:09No, the answer is in here.
51:14Or here, or...
51:16...wherever it is that...
51:17...the faith resides.
51:22And so...
51:25...Dean Woods...
51:28...having ridiculed you...
51:30...for what you...
51:32...and these poor...
51:34...blocked...
51:35...lost souls...
51:39...were trying to achieve here...
51:42...in St George's house...
51:45...I now find myself...
51:47...full of respect...
51:49...and admiration...
51:52...and not a small part of...
51:57...desperation...
52:00...as I come to say...
52:06...help.
52:12...help me.
52:23And to admit...
52:26...while those three astronauts...
52:27...deserve all our praise...
52:29...and respect for their...
52:30...undoubted heroism...
52:31...I was more scared...
52:32...coming here to see you today...
52:34...than I would have been...
52:35...going up in any bloody rocket.
52:36...
53:15Oh, my God.
53:36Oh, my God.
54:06Oh, my God.
55:03Oh, my God.
55:06Oh, my God.
55:36Oh, my God.
56:06Oh, my God.
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